Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

langover94 · Post by **langover94** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:33 pm

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:Blow up the beached dead whale!

Raining whale chunks... Not the most pleasant thing in the world.

- · Post by - » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:56 pm

"Maya Angelou" reads from CraigsList. Priceless.

Send Barack Your Baby.

If Your Last Girlfriend Had an ImDB page. Some funny like Cracked used to make before they became obsessed with endless Lists of Things.

The French are apparently poised to dethrone Americans as the Western wold's most obnoxious tourists.

More seriously: Atheist American soldier sues the DoD.

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:26 am

The unfortunate effects of Prozac...on science and understanding.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:24 am

ils wrote:More seriously: Atheist American soldier sues the DoD.

I am wondering if this is also the case in the Canadian army.

Still, a few things I read in that article made me feel unconfortable.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:47 pm

Oh dear- and Americans were angry about a breast during the Super Bowl.

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:49 am

A very interesting conversation between two self-righteous Iranian women - a driver and a prostitute. Especially interesting social observations from the pro in the second part IMO.

Part 1
Part 2

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:56 pm

Terran flying saucers one day? So dreams a scientist hailing from Florida :
http://news.ufl.edu/2008/06/11/flying-saucer/

This would be great

- · Post by - » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:52 am

Rain of Madness, a mockumentary about the making of the movie-within-the-forthcoming-movie Tropic Thunder. Looks like they've got an all-star cast, including Ben Stiller, Steve Coogan, Nick Nolte, Jack Black and more.

What became of the Star Wars cast, for those who care.

How did the Romans conquer the world? Easy. They rolled twenties.

When you think India, think automotive safety.

"No Don Quixote" traffic sign.

Terra · Post by **Terra** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:54 am

http://nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

A most innovative game which I just realized after 6 months would make a good interesting links entry.

EDIT: Ok, who put this on digg?
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Curs ... e_Web_Game

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:59 am

FinalZero wrote:http://nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

A most innovative game which I just realized after 6 months would make a good interesting links entry.

It's like help yourself!

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:26 am

Probably the creepiest song ever to make the top 40. But it might have been #1 in some of your conworlds.

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:14 pm

Shm Jay wrote:Probably the creepiest song ever to make the top 40. But it might have been #1 in some of your conworlds.

You can say that again.

Kereb · Post by **Kereb** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:16 am

Shm Jay wrote:Probably the creepiest song ever to make the top 40. But it might have been #1 in some of your conworlds.

So THAT's where that keyboard riff comes from. That thing's been sampled a billion times.

M

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:09 pm

The latest in expensive upscale cosmetics: Get slowly eaten by tiny fish. Just in case you've always wanted to know what it feels like to be the big animal in one of those cleansing-for-food symbiotic relationships you've seen on TV.

ketske · Post by **ketske** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:15 pm

A game which may or may not entertain:
http://www.addictinggames.com/pandemic2.html

langover94 · Post by **langover94** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:41 pm

Raphael wrote:The latest in expensive upscale cosmetics: Get slowly eaten by tiny fish. Just in case you've always wanted to know what it feels like to be the big animal in one of those cleansing-for-food symbiotic relationships you've seen on TV.

They showed this treatment on "I Survived A Japanese Game Show"

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krinnen · Post by **krinnen** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:56 pm

ketske wrote:A game which may or may not entertain:
http://www.addictinggames.com/pandemic2.html

Apparently, they only way of wining is starting in Madagascar, since spreading by boat is so damn hard....

I played 4 times and never infected madagascar.

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:42 am

krinnen wrote:
ketske wrote:A game which may or may not entertain:
http://www.addictinggames.com/pandemic2.html
Apparently, they only way of wining is starting in Madagascar, since spreading by boat is so damn hard.... I played 4 times and never infected madagascar.

I started in Madagascar and never left...

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:08 am

It's all about invisibility, and luck. After playing for five hours I won what was my third try through. I might try again for a faster takedown as it took me over 250 days to destroy humanity, I'm sure I can do it faster.

krinnen · Post by **krinnen** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:38 am

Kolya wrote:It's all about invisibility, and luck. After playing for five hours I won what was my third try through. I might try again for a faster takedown as it took me over 250 days to destroy humanity, I'm sure I can do it faster.

Would you give me some details? Which traits did you choose and in which order?

EDIT: I just had my random start loc at madagascar. Let's see how this goes....

krinnen · Post by **krinnen** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:32 am

Weird. East Europe closed its borders, shipyards and airports early on, and remained uninfected until I lost. Damn.

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:48 am

Why does the world have a bajillion people? Also interested in what 'a good order' is. After three tries the most damage I've done is wipe out 4 regions.

krinnen · Post by **krinnen** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:07 pm

Tarasoriku wrote:Why does the world have a bajillion people? Also interested in what 'a good order' is. After three tries the most damage I've done is wipe out 4 regions.

The guide says it's all about strategy and luck. I'm inclined to say that it's actually lots of luck and little strategy. I've wiped out the whole world except one island (one time Cuba, one time New Zeland and two times Madagascar), by generating a parasite with high resistance that produces heart and kidney failures.

The problem, imho, is reaching every region before they shut down airports, borders and ports

ketske · Post by **ketske** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:35 pm

I got it really easily on my first try with a bacteria with no symptoms except sneezing, all the methods of transmission, and resistances. I also happened to start in New Zealand, which is, I think, why I managed to get the islandy-places earlier.

All my tries after that, I lost because of Madagascar.

I think that it's unrealistically hard to spread the virus. It should be EASIEST to spread by plane and boat. One infected person on a plane or boat, with a highly transmissible disease, would infect the ENTIRE plane. The rate of infection should be exponential, but it seems like it's a linear thing. If your linear rate is 30 people per day, then each of those thirty people should infect another 30 people per day, but it doesn't seem that way. Once it gets big enough to leave the country, it spreads unbelievably fast though.

Edit: I started a new game just now, called the disease, a virus, "Zeebibitis" and started in New Zealand.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:25 pm

krinnen wrote:
Kolya wrote:It's all about invisibility, and luck. After playing for five hours I won what was my third try through. I might try again for a faster takedown as it took me over 250 days to destroy humanity, I'm sure I can do it faster.
Would you give me some details? Which traits did you choose and in which order?

I started in Greenland, I had a bacteria. I sold the initial symptom and started buying the heat, moisture, and drug resistances, then I bought the cold resistances and the transmission methods. I stayed small in the original place but managed to get a small foothold in other regions (I had infected persons in 18 of the 21 regions with fewer than 1000 people infected worldwide). The last region to become infected was madagascar. Once all regions were infected I bought a few symptoms that increase the rate of infection. Because I had the drug resistance iv the vaccine had a long time before completion, and then the hospitals started closing. Eventually I had infected the entire planet (every last individual, hoorah!) and so then I bought symptoms that increase fatality (I had infected the entire planet without even a single death). I bought Necrosis and in a day half a billion people had died.
I have yet to duplicate it though.

@tarasoriku: bajillion? how are you reading that number? I read the total world population as being 6.3 billion people.